Love in Sonnet 43 and Valentine plan

Question 1

How do sonnet 43 and valentine present love similarly?

Answer 1

Both speakers depict their love as passionate towards their partner

Question 2

Quotes for passionate love in valentine

Answer 2

‘Cling to your knife’ - Knife will break love and emotions will cling to you

Question 3

Quotes for pure love in Sonnet 43

Answer 3

-repetition of ‘I love Thee’ - religious language
-‘freely’, ‘purely’, ‘praise’

-‘depth and breadth and height’ - all consuming

Question 4

How do Sonnet 43 and Valentine present love differently?

Answer 4

-Valentine rejects the romantic stereotypes and the consumerism associated with valentines.

-Sonnet 43 is more stereotypical, conforming to traditional images of love.

Question 5

Quotes for rejection of romantic sterotypes valentine

Answer 5

-‘Not a red rose or a satin heart’
-‘I give you an onion’ - complexity to layers of love

Question 6

Quotes for Traditional love sonnet 43

Answer 6

-‘I love thee better after death’ - Religious aspect of traditional love
-‘Ideal grace’- chosen to love him, spiritual.

Question 7

Structure in Valentine and Sonnet 43

Answer 7

Structurally, Valentine and Sonnet 43 are very different as they use different structural devices to depict love.

Question 8

Notes about structure sonnet 43 (Octave, sestet and volta)

Answer 8

-The octave is about her love for him and ways she loves him

-Sestet is about the lover’s connection to god and how she loves him like she loves god.

-Volta is speaker wanting love to be ever lasting even after death.

Question 9

Notes about structure sonnet 43 (rhythm)

Answer 9

-Written in iambic pentameter making it steady, predictable and constant like her love for him. Introspective of her love

Question 10

Notes about structure valentine

Answer 10

-Valentine is written in free verse. (no rhyme)
-Single lines isolated to make statement direct
-The poem is not very grammatical and is more modern, ‘lethal’, like a monolouge

Question 11

Notes about rhythm in valentine

Answer 11

Lack of rhythm implies the relationship can be volatile.

Question 12

Context in sonnet 43

Answer 12

-Elizabeth Barret Browning eloped with Robert Barret Browning because her father looked down on the relationship

-The father was very overprotective, because he had lost his son (drowned)
-Romantic movement in 19th century a literacy movement that rediscovered sonnet form.

Question 13

Context in Valentine

Answer 13

-Duffy is a feminist who challenges contemporary society’s views about romanticism.

-Poet Laureate who writes about everyday events and feelings that resonate with ordinary people.